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No way. Fewer H1 visas means that instead of having foreign workers here on visas performing work, the functions will move elsewhere.

If the government was setting up a program to fund boot camps for ERP and other big boring tech like what is done in India and elsewhere, that would be different. But we’re not doing that.

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And time and time again it's been shown that outsourcing doesn't really work that well. If it was just about the money, they wouldn't bother sponsoring H1Bs at all. They would just outsource from the start, and why wouldn't they? Unless the skills aren't there to lead a team from abroad with an 8hr time zone difference.

If the function could move overseas, it would have. Why assume companies are acting irrationally and paying higher US wages when they can hire inexpensively overseas? Companies hire locally because many jobs cant be moved overseas cost effectively.

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